Good deal or bad deal?

[PaulC]

A super-ikonta A, 1948, fairly well used (rubbed corners) for £44.



It's got the Schneidar Xenar lens. Vendor apparently inherited a collection and assumes everything works but doesn't know for sure (seems to be true, he's got a bunch of classics up for sale). He identified this one as a Zeiss Compur.

Anyway, it's mine now. I guess if it works it was a great deal and if it doesn't then it's probably worth that much anyway. Is that a reasonable assessment?

[Attila]

I don't know nothing about this camera, but I'd like to hear your experience

[PaulC]

You'll have to wait a bit, I'm having it sent to my son in England. I won't get my hands on it for a month.

The Super-Ikontas were the very top of Zeiss Ikon's range, with coupled rangefinders. They are the cameras the Russians decided to copy with the Moskva range. In good condition the asking prices for super-Ikontas are similar to Bessas.

[Attila]

[PaulC]

516/32 .... ?

516 was the wartime Nettar with double-exposure prevention. Not sure what the /32 version would do. /16 was 6x6 and /2 was 6x9.

BTW this thread is already on Google.

[Attila]

http://forum.mflenses.com/zeiss-ikon-super-ikonta-532-16-t31953.html

This is mine , it was pretty fast isn't it ?

[PaulC]

Ah! 532/16. Nice. But why are there diffraction ring colours visible in the lens? Not that it is likely to affect anything.

[Attila]

Fortunately just crappy shoot , lens is clear.